Other specified disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Billable / specific
L98.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L98)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L98)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L98)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L98)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L98)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L98)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L98)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L98)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L98)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L98)
Also known as
- Degeneration, degenerative, cutis
- Degeneration, degenerative, skin
- Degeneration, degenerative, skin, colloid
- Dermatosis, menstrual NEC
- Disease, diseased, skin, specified NEC
- Dysplasia, skin
- Dystrophy, dystrophia, skin NEC
- Fistula
- Fistula, skin
- Lymphocytoma, benign cutis
- Malibu disease
- Rhytidosis facialis
- Spiegler-Fendt, benign lymphocytoma
Parent code
- L98Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
Related codes
- L98.0Pyogenic granulomaBillable
- L98.1Factitial dermatitisBillable
- L98.2Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet]Billable
- L98.3Eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells]Billable
- L98.4Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- L98.ANon-pressure chronic ulcer of upper limb, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- L98.5Mucinosis of the skinBillable
- L98.6Other infiltrative disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissueBillable
- L98.7Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissueBillable
- L98.9Disorder of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, unspecifiedBillable